Chris, Chris Albertson wrote: > I'm not a fan of Meinberg because of the way they market freely > available software.
I'm sorry you feel this way. We at Meinberg have supported the NTP project for many years, by donations of money and hardware, testing, submitting bug reports and patches. There've been also enhancements like the initial leap second handling code in the Windows port of ntpd, workarounds for limitations in Windows to increase the possible accuracy under Windows, etc. Quite some years ago there was no easy way to install ntpd under Windows, so one of my colleagues had the idea to put a GUI setup program together which makes installation under Windows as simple as possible even for inexperienced users. When we started this, we also discussed with the other NTP developers and agreed that we would and should provide the installer via the Meinberg download page, where we clearly say that the setup program provides a precompiled version built from the public source code that is available at ntp.org. The installer is also free of charge, and there are no duties implied by using it. So once more, I feel sorry that you have such a bad feeling about this, which has just been introduced to make NTP more popular even for users who are not time nuts. If you know how to do it you can still build your own binaries from the original source code. Martin (who is biased since working at Meinberg) _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
